Tuesday, March 15, 2011

FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONISM/ 'Dusk in the Form World' by Eric Whollem, 1987/ Mixed media painting on paper/ An expressionistic abstraction based on studies of petroglyphs and pictographs




Dusk in the Form World
1987
by Eric Whollem
mixed media on paper
15" x 10 1/4"
Collection of the artist
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

The Form World

The 'Form World' is a term that one finds in metaphysics. The
idea being that on the psychic planes, forms take a lower
echelon in the scheme of things on 'the other side.'

Above the Form World, sometimes referred to as the Mental
Plane, is the Formless World. This is called Dharmakaya in
Buddhism. The Formless World is conceived of as a plane of
radiant light.

I depict the Form World here in pictographic images, some of
which are anthropomorphic and figurative, though some might
regard these figurations as rather 'childlike.'  In this respect I
follow in suit of the Blaue Reiter artists such as Paul Klee, who
adored the freedom of children's art.

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